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Article: Storytellers and Their Listener-Readers in Silko's "Storytelling" and "Storyteller".
- Article from:
- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
- Author:
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In Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) provides the example of Betonie, the mixed-blood Navajo medicine man whose guidance and healing help Tayo in his own healing and restoration. The healing ceremony of the novel begins with the story that Ts'its'tsi'nako, Thought-Woman, is thinking, continues with the specifics of Betonie's work and words, and continues further with Tayo's entry into the ceremony as a part of the story and then as a storyteller for the other members of his tribe. Silko, Betonie, and Tayo all serve as healing storytellers weaving the verbal webs that reinscribe the old words, the old stories, the old ways into revisions that provide new ways ...